[PD] GUI and DSP

[Mathieu Bouchard]

Le 2012-02-11 à 09:15:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :

> Do you still have any of those changes you made to Tk?  If so, how do 
> they compare to unpatched Tk when running Hans' array-demo?

Well, yes, I have them, but it's not very relevant, as I already know that 
those changes make Pd really worse in too many cases.

The interface common to all item-types has a function to return one bbox 
(bounding-box : x1 y1 x2 y2). It is assumed that the whole bbox has to be 
redrawn whenever any aspect of the item has changed. For long diagonal 
lines, this means a damn lot of stuff that isn't even close to the line.
I didn't change this.

Then this info is centralised as a single bbox that tells which part of 
the canvas to redraw. There's only one. In my diff, I replace this by a 
grid each representing a 8x8 or 32x32 zone, I don't remember what precise 
size. But that was all, and this caused draw-commands to be duplicated 
many times the way I did it, because I drew each zone separately with a 
clipmask. There would have been other ways to reduce the waste, some 
involving redrawing multiple zones at once in the grid system, and some 
involving handling multiple bboxes at once and merging them into something 
that is not a bbox.

I also had other ideas, such as making items modify the grid instead of 
returning a bbox, which would greatly speed up things like diagonal lines 
and perhaps pd's arrays (any item in which the bbox has a much greater 
area than the item).

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